Re: [squid-users] do we already have support for gzip/deflate in Squid?

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:40:45 +0100 (CET)

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> As far as I know, Squid doesn't support gzip/deflate.

Correct. Squid can not gzip/deflate content on the fly.

But there is obviously no problem for Squid to forward gzipped content
from the web server.

> As I was playing with Ethereal, I captured some packets between Squid and my
> Apache, and to my surprise, these were compressed using gzip/deflate!

Which is fine, as long as the server sends the proper Vary headers..

> The pages saved in Squid cache were not compressed, though, but this is not
> an issue.

Squid caches the compressed version if allowed by the web server.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Feb 13 2005 - 04:40:47 MST

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